Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Novel Nano-Liter Scale Microfluidic Platform for Protein Kinetics
(2008-12-15)
In the mid-1970s, integrated circuits exploited miniaturized transistors to bring a revolution in the field of computation. This marked the foundation of computers and information technology. In this century, we are on the ...
Phage-Based Magnetoelastic Sensor for the Detection of Salmonella typhimurium
(2008-12-15)
In recent years, food-borne illness have garnered the attention of mainstream America with calls now coming from the media for more inspections to ensure the safety of our food supply. Food borne illness from the ingestion ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between Culturally Recognized Symbols as Avatars and Trust in Computer-Mediated Communication Environments
(2008-12-15)
One of the characterizations that distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world is the use of symbols. Many researchers consider the act of forming and using symbols as the central cognitive process in mankind’s ...
The Relationships Among Personality, Stress, and Situation Awareness: The Effect of Situation Awareness Training
(2008-12-15)
Conventionally, the study of situation awareness (SA) has predominantly been confined to the field of aviation. However, SA has been recognized to be of vital importance in information-processing and decision-making in a ...
Comparing the Overlapping of Two Independent Confidence Intervals with a Single Confidence Interval for Two Normal Population Parameters
(2008-12-15)
Two overlapping confidence intervals have been used in many sources in the past 30 years to conduct statistical inferences about two normal population means. Several authors have examined the shortcomings of Overlap ...
Retail Spatial Design with a Racetrack Aisle Network Considering Revenue and Adjacencies
(2008-12-15)
In this dissertation, a novel model for the retail store design problem is proposed. The new approach consists of placing departments in a racetrack configuration within the store subject to area and shape constraints. ...
Electric Power Bidding Models for Competitive Markets
(2008-12-15)
Profit maximization for power companies is highly related to the bidding strategies used. In order to sell electricity at high prices and maximize profit, power companies need suitable bidding models that consider power ...
Adolescents' Attitudes towards Counseling by Demographic Group: Before and After a Youth Relationship Education Curriculum
(2008-12-15)
Although marriage relationship education and counseling programs have been shown to be effective in promoting healthy relationships, participants are typically not from diverse backgrounds. Adolescent attitudes towards ...
The Beliefs About PVA Harm Survey: Testing the factor structure, validity, and relationship to use of parental verbal aggression and stress
(2008-12-15)
Recent prevalence data indicate that parental verbal aggression (PVA) (e.g., yelling/screaming, threatening to hit, swearing, insulting, and threatening to send away) is used by a majority of parents at one time or another ...
Assessment of Composting Methods for Use in the Green Industry
(2008-12-15)
Composting is a common waste management tool for successful reduction of waste materials. Due to increased consumer awareness for compost products and their value to the green industry research is needed to evaluate different ...
The Effects of the Literature in the Garden Curriculum on Life Skills of Children
(2008-12-15)
Contemporary children's gardening began in 1993 when the American Horticultural Society held its first symposium based on youth gardening. It was entitled ""Children, Plants, and Gardens: Educational Opportunities."" ...
A National Overview of Plant Selection/introduction Programs and a State Survey of Growers and Retailers to Determine the Potential for an Alabama Plant Selection/Introduction Program
(2008-12-15)
Over the past fifteen years, many states have established statewide plant selection/introduction programs for the purpose of promoting and marketing selected plants to consumers to increase sales for the Green Industry. ...
Evaluation of Spent Tea Grinds as an Alternative Horticultural Substrate Component
(2008-12-15)
Spent Tea Grinds (STG) is the by-product of the rapidly growing tea brewing industry. Published research to date provides few alternatives for beneficial uses of STG. However, the physical and chemical properties of STG ...
Setting the Table With Bibles: A History of the Non-Aligned, Non-Class Churches of Christ
(2008-12-15)
This study seeks to explore the non-aligned, non-class Church of Christ, a particular movement within the Churches of Christ\Disciples of Christ, which has never been recognized as a separate and independent part of the ...
Minimum Moral Rights: Alabama Mental Health Institutions And The Road To Federal Intervention
(2008-12-15)
This thesis explores the history of the abuse to the patients in Alabama’s Mental
Health Hospitals from 1860 to 1970. It addresses the social norms that encouraged the
abuse, the legal aspects that endorsed the abuse, ...
Senators Hill and Sparkman and Nine Alabama Congressmen Debate National Health Insurance, 1935-1965
(2008-12-15)
From the 1930s to the 1960s, Senator Lister Hill of Alabama was admired for his experience with issues like national health insurance (NHI). Senator John Sparkman, also from Alabama, was fiscally conservative yet sensitive ...
Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War
(2008-12-15)
Historians thus far have largely portrayed Baptists in the South as uniformly supportive of the Confederacy and Civil War, other than in regional pockets which exhibited widespread Union sympathy. This study focuses on ...
Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine
(2008-12-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an updated life-and-times biography of a major religious and political figure in nineteenth-century American history, Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902). Palmer rubbed elbows ...
NASA's Hidden Power: NACA/NASA Public Relations and the Cold War, 1945-1967
(2008-12-15)
During the 1960s, NASA’s human spaceflight program commanded national and international attention. The program created American images infused with heroic values. What were these images? How and why did the process of image ...
The Effect of a High Autonomy Teaching Intervention on Fitness Outcomes in Fifth Grade Physical Education
(2008-12-15)
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the difference between two different teaching conditions when teaching a fitness unit. The current study investigates the difference between a high autonomy teaching condition ...